Websites:	Homepage
Manufacturer:	RapidSolution Software
Platform:
Version Tested	AudialsOne Platinum
Version Number	4.0.28408.800
Build Date	Oct 15, 2009

Overview

AudialsOne gives you instant access to over 40,000 Internet radio stations spread over 80 genres, 70,000 artists with millions of songs, international video, music and podcast portals. Simply enter in an artist or song title and AudialsOne will take it from there. With AudialsOne, every Internet radio station in the world is just a push of a button away. It offers unbeatable capabilities for targeting and downloading unlimited quantities of the free entertainment you’re looking for.

AudialsOne, developed by RapidSolution Software, is a complete suite which includes all the features of their other three products, viz, Radiotracker, Tunebite and Mediaraptor. It also includes powerful features like AutoTag, Podcast, a powerful media organizer, in-built music and video player, ring-tone maker, disk burner, convert media into the formats you need and also remove DRM copy protection.

Review

Installation [9/10]

Installing AudialsOne is very easy and you just need to follow the installation wizard. After selecting your installation directory, the installer asks if you want to integrate your existing music collection or not.

During installation don’t forget the to consider installing the LAME MP3 encoder.

After the first installation process, it will ask for confirmation of Driver installation.

Then the installer will configure Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.

At some point of installation, the Security Center pops up a message about installing RapidSolution driver, click on Install here to successfully install AudialsOne.

Features [9/10]

AudialsOne is having almost all the features that any music lover can ask for. The included features pretty much takes care of all your entertainment needs. Everything is accessible through the main user interface and is just a click away.

When you first launch AudialsOne, you will be in the Radio tab, if you want to record some music of your favourite genre or from your favourite Internet radio station or social radios like last.fm, imeem, pandora or soundclick, just select the desired genre and click on Start Recording. AudialsOne will automatically start ripping songs for you, tag them, download other media information, lyrics, etc and save the songs automatically.

If you click on the Stations button, you can browse through different genres of Internet radio from around the world. Here, you can add manually Internet radio stations which are not present in the list. If you select a lower bit-rate for the streaming stations you will end up with a lot more results.

You can use the Search tab to search for music or videos of a particular artist or song. Under Search when you click on the Artist button, you can browse through a large database of artists.

One of the notable feature of AudialsOne is the WishList. Using Wishlist, you can search the web for music and videos by artists that you have specified. You can compile several wish lists, and switch between them. AudialsOne saves all your wish lists automatically.

The Web functionality provides a convenient way to get music and videos from any websites like Last.FM, YouTube, etc. AudialsOne automatically keeps track of all media played back in your browser, and saves them to your computer.

If you like Podcast, then AudialsOne is a very good podcatcher. If you don’t know what a Podcast is, don’t worry we are here to help you out. A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. A simple definition will be, Podcasts offer regular shows like radio or television series. There are thousands of podcast offering news or entertainment shows as well as podcast dedicated to specific topics. You can add podcast to the list to listen or download or watch podcast episodes.

Using Converter, you can remove annoying DRM from the audio and video files that you own to easily transfer them to other computers and portable devices or you can simply convert your audio and video files to other formats. When converting there are different formats you can convert the files to depending on what you want to play them on. I did a test with some of my DRM audio files and AudialsOne lived up my expectations and perfectly removed the DRM protection while keeping the quality of the file intact. Full marks here to AudialsOne.

AudialsOne comes with a powerful feature called Organize. You can organize all your multimedia files and categorize them into Artists and Genres. You can let AudialsOne automatically reorganize all your media. Here, you will find a nice feature called Autotag. Autotag searches the Internet for meta data to tag your recorded mp3′s. It also finds album artwork and lyrics from a variety of sources. If you have lesser known music you can also manually edit the tags as well.

It also includes a ring-tone creator, if you want to create ring-tones for your mobile device. You can create ringtones by clicking on the Mobile button.

The in-built burner allows you to burn tracks to a disc.

audials TV is another cool feature for watching music videos of all music genres from the web.

AudialsOne features portable device synchronization. Just click on the Gadget button to configure and synchronise your portable device like your mobile, MP3 player, etc with your music collection.

Ease of Use [9/10]

Even though it is fully feature packed and many things going on simultaneously in AudialsOne but everything is laid out nicely, just a click away and is very easy to use. AudialsOne allows you to find tons of streaming music and video from around the web to download or view or listen. You can easily filter the search to a particular genre or artist. Click on Start Recording to download the media from the web. You can then view the progress or listen to the currently ripped song while AudialsOne is saving them to the hard drive.

Performance [8/10]

Overall AudialsOne performed very well. It successfully ripped and processed audio and video quickly on my AMD system running Windows 7, while I was using the Organize and using the in-built player to listen to the music simultaneously. But as you can understand that running all these processes is surely going to take up resources, but it didn’t bog down my system at all. As I was also using Chrome to surf the Internet and also had other programs running. As you can see in the screenshot below, the first screenshot is taken when I was doing all the stuff said above and the second one when AudialsOne was only ripping songs and videos.

Product Support [9/10]

RapidSolution Software offers free customer support for AudialsOne through a variety of channels that includes FAQ, a dedicated forum for each of their products and email support which is answered within three working days.

Conclusion

AudialsOne is the best online media downloader and recording solution that any music lover can get. AudialsOne helps finding and downloading music and video very fast and easy process. You can easily remove annoying DRM protection from all your current media. AudialsOne is offered in two versions: AudialsOne freeware to test all the functions and download only 40 songs and AudialsOne Platinum which retails for $59.90/€ 44.90

Warning: Using AudialsOne can result “in an unlimited dose of entertainment every second, quickly filled up GB’s even TB’s of hard disk space and using the full potential of your unlimited Internet connection!”

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Radiotracker Platinum’s MusicFinder finds the MP3 music you’re looking for
Innovative technology allows all Radiotrackers around the world to automatically inform each other about which Web radio stations are playing which music. More than 2000 Web radio stations are simultaneously and continuously monitored. When the music you want begins to play somewhere, your Radiotracker is automatically notified and immediately starts recording the songs on your wish list.

Radiotracker is the only Internet-radio recorder with a real MP3 MusicFinder
Radiotracker Platinum’s easy-to-use MusicFinder fulfills a musical wish on average every 25 seconds. Year-for-year, Radiotracker has received awards from international trade publications and is recognized by users all over the world as the proven solution for getting free music through the targeted recording of Internet radio stations.

70,000 artists, 20000 stations in the bag
Radiotracker Platinum’s integrated, always up-to-date database of the music played by 20,000 Internet radio stations is simply unmatched. Its convenient search function lets you find your favorite artists in seconds — and even other artists with similar styles — and quickly generate a wish list for the MusicFinder. Radiotracker Platinum fulfills a musical wish every 25 seconds on average — dependent on how well-known the artist is and how many Internet radio stations play the MP3 music title.

Lost track of the musical gaps in your collection? Radiotracker Platinum fills them in!
Radiotracker Platinum analyzes your existing music collection and generates a wish list containing the music titles that are missing for each artist. You can also ask Radiotracker to recommend similar music and artists. And while you’re listening to MP3 music in Radiotracker’s media player, one click is all that’s needed to add the corresponding artist to your wish list. If you’ve already used Autorip to record a lot of music from one genre, this is an unbeatable function for extending your collection quickly with more MP3 music from any specific artist you’d like to have. It couldn’t be easier.

The ultimate in flexibility — a wish list for every mood!
With Radiotracker, you can create an unlimited number of completely different wish lists, save them, manage them, upload them to the Community or even import them from there. You’ll always have the right music for every occasion, for example a romantic candle-light dinner, a summer party, Halloween, an all-night dance party or to make Christmas warm and festive. With Radiotracker, adding an extra level of enchantment to any occasion is as easy as a wish list.

Radiotracker uses the music you already have to avoid recording what you don’t need again
Radiotracker analyzes your existing music collection to ensure it only records music that you don’t have yet. You save the annoying process of having to sort out copies and always get the music titles you want. You can also manually insert individual artists directly into the filter to achieve even tighter control.

The highest-possible quality — for those who demand the best
Most music shops offer WMA and MP3 downloads at 128 kbit/s quality. Radiotracker currently tracks around 5,700 Internet radio stations that broadcast at this quality level and higher. In comparison with most music shops, Radiotracker lets you choose superior quality levels reaching as high as 192, 256 or even 320 kbit/s. With Radiotracker, you get the same MP3 music titles offered by the online shops in the equivalent or even higher quality — but everything you download is free! Radiotracker also automatically removes DJ talkover, and its audio studio helps you make any required touch-ups after-the-fact.

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VERDICT: Radiotracker is the best, easy-to-use professional tool to convert Internet streams into MP3′s that allows editing tracks, give user-specific results, and provides good value for money.
FOR: Very simple and easy-to-use with most features just a click away, advanced features are easy to configure, huge built-in database of web radio stations and podcast, burn MP3′s easily, create ring-tones, synchronize with portable music players.
AGAINST: None in particular though some tracks were not perfectly ripped, they were clipped or the MP3′s fade-in incorrectly, but it’s not entirely Radiotracker’s fault.

Over the past few days I have been busy in expanding my music collection exponentially by ripping songs off the Internet legally for free using Radiotracker! Radiotracker is the ultimate tool for any music lover for recording music from over 70,000 artists, 20,000 Internet radio stations and around 80 different music genres with the unique features like Autorip, MusicFinder and more. You must be thinking if that is really legal? It is completely legit if you rip songs from web radio stations as long as you keep the music to your personal collection and not share it. You will find more information about this here if you are in doubt.

With Radiotracker’s Autorip feature, you will have to just select the desired genre and click on AutoRip and sit back while your hard disk is filled up with thousands of songs from your favourite artists or genre. Another nice feature of Radiotracker is that it automatically enhances most of the ripped songs with corresponding album cover art, lyrics, and track-specific information. You can also edit this information with easily using the in-built ID3 tag editor. The software also saves the tracks by organizing them into different folders according to your choice. You can sort them according to genre, station, artist, album or you can just leave them all without sorting! By default, only stations broadcasting at 128 Kbps or higher are recorded, but you can alter this to your liking. To test the Autorip feature, I selected Rock as the genre and clicked on Autorip, within seconds I found that Radiotracker automatically started ripping all the tracks from the Rock genre and I must say that I am very impressed by the end results.

To help music lovers further, Radiotracker features another great feature “wish list” which is combined with MusicFinder. Using the wish list is much more useful as it allows you to specify particular artists, tracks or albums that you would like to record. You can even find relatively obscure artists included in Radiotracker’s database. To test this feature I added four artists and clicked on Activate. The software started scanning through more than 2500 stations to find my desired music and saved them automatically when they are played in any web radio station.

If you like podcast then Radiotracker also have an extensive podcast database of more than 40000 audio podcast and around 7000 video podcast. Downloading podcast is very easy. You have to subscribe to the desired station and click on Activate to start downloading. Other features worth mentioning are MP3 synchronization with iPod, MP3 players or your mobile phone, Exporting track list to Windows Media Player, iTunes or Winamp, Burning the downloaded tracks to an Audio CD, MP3 CD or MP3 DVD, Creating ring-tones, Editing tracks, Editing ID3 tags and the built-in music player.

Raditracker is available in Premium and Platinum version, the Premium version lacks features like wish lists, MusicFinder, recording off social web radio sites. Radiotracker Premium version is priced at $26.90/€19.90 and Raditracker Platinum version is priced at $39.90/€29.90.

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On a scale of 5, (1 for worst and 5 for best) My Technology Guide awards Radiotracker 4.5 out of 5.

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